3810 SE Division
3810 SE Division
Portland, Oregon
Though most of our projects involve historic rehabilitation/adaptive reuse of existing structures, we are also experts at ground-up construction. 3810 SE Division is UDP’s showpiece: a four-story, LEED Platinum certified, mixed-use building along a thriving, transit-oriented retail corridor.
One challenge we faced with this lot was deciding what to do with the three-story Victorian house that faced Division Street. Rather than demolish this beautiful house to make room for
our new development, we relocated it to face 38th Avenue. Not only did we have the privilege of preserving a significant neighborhood structure, but the house also provides a balanced transition from the inner residential neighborhood on 38th Avenue to the commercial thoroughfare on Division. We moved the house in June 2010, began construction in July 2010, completed the project on schedule in July 2011, and had the apartments fully leased almost immediately thereafter. The retail space of our east building is fully leased to Little Big Burger, a hair salon, and a professional office, and we expect to have the west building fully leased during Q1 2012.
Our artfully designed building is stunning inside and out and has been very well received in the neighborhood. It has one level of ground-floor retail and three levels of residential apartments above (24 apartments total—a mix of studios, one-bedrooms, and two-bedrooms). We split the residential block in the middle with a sky-bridge corridor to give the building and the block a more spacious, less imposing look. At street level, we have a flow-through courtyard that allows pedestrian movement to the back of the property. Retail sales and services that are not walk-up oriented occupy tranquil south-facing spaces that look onto a community garden. With LEED Platinum-certified apartments and a permeable-surface courtyard with vegetated planters and other fixtures to manage storm water, 3810 SE Division has raised the bar for green building practices in Portland.
- Architect: Stack Architecture
- Builder: Lorentz Bruun
- Landscape Architect: Terrafluxus
- Photo Credits: Sally Painter
